Denmark’s Engagement with UNICEF

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is present in over 190 countries and works to ensure children's basic rights, promote children's rights and development, including access to education, nutrition, clean water and sanitation, health and child protection. UNICEF has a strategic focus on strengthening the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, including working across gender equality and humanitarian efforts.

UNICEF's work is relevant to a wide range of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, including in particular SDG 1 (End poverty), SDG 2 (End hunger), SDG 3 (Health and well-being), SDG 4 (Quality education), SDG 5 (Gender equality) gender equality) and SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation).

UNICEF's humanitarian work accounts for more than 40 percent of the organization's total activities, making the organization a key player in international humanitarian cooperation and in the link between humanitarian efforts and long-term efforts to strengthen resilience, conflict prevention, stability and sustainable development.

Denmark's engagement with UNICEF is anchored in the multilateral partnership agreement between Denmark and UNICEF for the period 2023-2025.

You can read more about UNICEF at their homepage.

You can read about the Danish organisation strategy vis-a-vis UNICEF here.